SOC 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Takers, Self-Control, Cognitive Dissonance
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How people interpret and define their social reality and the meanings they attach to it in the process of interacting with one another via language/symbols. If we wish to understand social beings, we have to understand how individuals subjectively perceive their social reality and how they interact (cid:1) Explains both individual criminality and aggregate crime rates. Identifies conditions that must be present for crime to occur: absent when crime is absent. Focuses on process of becoming delinquent (cid:1) (cid:1) Criminal behavior is learned with other persons in a process of communication. The principal part of the learning of criminal behavior occurs within intimate personal groups. When criminal behavior is learned, the learning includes techniques of committing the crime, which are sometimes very complicated and sometimes simple and the specific direction of motives, drives, rationalizations and attitudes. The specific direction of motives and drives is learned from definitions of the legal codes as favorable or unfavorable.
